By Duncan Mackay at the Lotte Hotel in SeoulFebruary 1 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has praised Pyeongchang's early preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics after visiting the South Korean resort for the first time. 

 These included the ice skating and short track venue, the speed skating venue, and both ice hockey

suspended for one year by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) after the Polish ice sledge hockey

analytical finding for Carboxy-THC in a urine sample given on November 17 at last year's IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

By Duncan Mackay in Seoul January 31 - An athlete from the Isle of Man competing in the Special Olympic World Winter Games in Pyeongchang has died, it has been announced.

being transferred to Asan Hospital where he underwent treatment.Cowin had been due to compete in floor hockey

Cowin's father has asked that the floor hockey team continue to compete in the Games and they drew their

GoddardJanuary 31 - Two British Olympic medal winners have been named on the 18-strong England women's hockey

Championships last year.Giselle Ansley, Sarah Haycroft, Jo Hunter and Joanna Leigh all play their club hockey

in the Investec Women's Hockey League and were part of the side that overcame Germany in their last

alongside Laura Unsworth The world number four team will be led by Karen Brown, England's most capped hockey

player of all time, along with trip coaches England under-21 women's coach Craig Keegan and director of Hockey

By Duncan Mackay at the Yongpyong Dome in PyeongchangJanuary 29 - Pyeongchang's preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics underwent its first real test when the 10th Special Olympics World Winter Games opened here tonight at a ceremony attended by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

alpine skiing, cross country skiing, snowboarding, snow shoeing, speed skating, figure skating, floor hockey

By Emily GoddardJanuary 29 - The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has welcomed a Government funding boost of more than $31 million (£20 million/€23 million) to help the nation's winter sports in the final year of preparations for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

biathlon, bobsleigh/skeleton/luge, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey

By Duncan MackayJanuary 28 - Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, is set to stand down as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after his mother, Queen Beatrice, announced today that she will abdicate on April 30 after 33 years as head of state, clearing the way for her eldest son to become the Netherlands' first King in more than a century.

Vriesman, who forfeited her place five years ago after she lost her position as head of the International Hockey

By Tom DegunJanuary 28 - The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) have signed a major sponsorship deal with the Canadian Tire Corporation which will see the retail company become their Premier National Partner in an eight-year agreement.

agreements with the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), the Canadian Soccer Association, Skate Canada, Hockey

By James CrookJanuary 25 - Russian ice hockey star Alex Ovechkin will be allowed to compete at the 2014

Winter Olympics in Sochi regardless of whether National Hockey League (NHL) players are permitted to

OlympicsJanuary 2012: Putin calls for players to be released from NHL for Sochi 2014February 2010: Hockey

By Tom DegunJanuary 25 - The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has invited sport organisations and clubs across the country to start applying for the 2013-2014 grant rounds of both the Para-Equipment Fund and the Recruitment Programme Fund.

local-level clubs to purchase adapted equipment for sports such as wheelchair basketball, ice sledge hockey

By James CrookJanuary 24 - Russia are considering a bid to host the 2019 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Cup, according to Russian Basketball Federation (RBF) Commissioner, Alexander Krasnenkov.

include this year's World Athletics Championships and the Rugby Sevens World Cup and the World Ice Hockey

By James CrookJanuary 24 - Russian ice hockey star Aleksey Morozov will be the first torchbearer for

 The Olympic silver medallist and current captain of Kontinental Hockey League side Ak Bars Kazan

Ice hockey is not part of the World University Summer Games, but I am very happy to be involved in this

By Emily GoddardJanuary 24 - Sport England today announced a further £16.6 million ($26.3 million/€19.7 million) investment into 310 projects to hit its London 2012 legacy target of supporting 1,000 local communities one year ahead of schedule.

received a £50,000 ($79,000/€60,000) funding boost to pay for a multi-use games area that can be used for hockey

Minister Hugh Robertson, who today joined Sport England and members Team GB's Olympic bronze women's hockey

secured a £50,000 ($79,000/€60,000) funding boost to pay for a multi-use games area that can be used for hockey

Helen Richardson, a hockey player from the London 2012 bronze medal team, added: "Good local facilities

It's fantastic to see that lots of hockey clubs are benefitting too."

By Emily GoddardJanuary 23 - The United States women's hockey team are set to move to what is soon to

be America's largest indoor sports complex, Nook Sports, after USA Field Hockey secured a deal with

their location on Spooky Nook Road in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, will also host national USA Field Hockey

We have been searching for a Home of Hockey in the northeast over the last several years and are excited

The Home of Hockey will provide us with a platform to best prepare our national teams for success in

and the far reaching hockey community."

To have a Home for Hockey so central to the majority of the field hockey population is exciting to say

By Emily GoddardJanuary 22 - Three-time Olympic hockey player Marcelo Garraffo has been named as the

medallists, taking over from Carlos Retegui.As well as Garraffo (pictured top, right), the Argentinean Hockey

after their 3-1 victory over Germany during the women's bronze medal at Beijing 2008 The Argentinean hockey